- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3647569/how-do-i-install-curl-on-cygwin
- https://github.com/transcode-open/apt-cyg
$ apt-cyg …
Category: shell command line
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alternative cygwin installer: apt-cyg
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a “terminal multiplexer” is a software application …
Features:
- persistence
- multiple windows AKA screen splitting, screen tiling (my most wanted feature) – other applications have that as well (and for the same purpose): emacs, KDE konsole, …
- session sharing
- …
Implementations:
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KDE Konsole is a terminal emulator (AKA console) for the K Desktop Environment — outdated — I now prefer qterminal over konsole
- https://konsole.kde.org
- https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/applications/konsole/commandreference.html#settings-menu — shortcuts, how to move the focus to another tab, …
- http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net
- https://cygwin.com/packages/package_list.html
- https://cygwin.com/packages/x86_64/konsole/
- https://cygwin.com/packages/x86_64/konsole4/
I urgently need to replace mintty within my Cygwin environment by something more serious. I need to split the screen horizontally or vertically. And I cannot cope with GNU screen‘s shortcomings – esp. with its learning curve.
Context:
Update 2018-07-10:
My impression: konsole on Cygwin is buggy: it halts suddenly after a while.
I now prefer qterminal, the Qt terminal emulator.
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GNU wdiff — front end to GNU diff — word differences
Compares two files on a word per word basis, finding the word deleted or added from the first file to make the second. A word is defined as anything between whitespace. It works by creating two temporary files, one word per line, and the executes ‘diff’ on these fields. It collects the ‘diff’ output and uses it to produce a nicer display of word differences between the original files.
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GNU Screen
Its own manual:
- https://www.gnu.org/software/screen/manual/
- https://www.gnu.org/software/screen/manual/screen.html — entirely on one web page
- https://www.gnu.org/software/screen/manual/screen.html#Regions
- https://www.gnu.org/software/screen/manual/html_node/ — with one web page per node
- https://www.gnu.org/software/screen/manual/html_node/Regions.html
- https://www.gnu.org/software/screen/manual/screen.pdf
The general prefix:
C-a.Temporarily switching to the builtin command line:
C-a :.Concepts, approaches, …:
- persistent shell session
- regions — displaying more than one window at a time, splitting horizontally or vertically (i.e. screen tiling / splitting), resizing the visible regions, …
- scrolling — the usual scrolling is not available per se — #ToBeClarified — I am not 100% sure how scrolling within screen is meant to be done, but it does not feel well and reasonably usable (what a pity! K.O.!!!)
Other links:
- https://nathan.chantrell.net/linux/an-introduction-to-screen/
- http://www.guckes.net/talks/screen/belug.txt (in German)
- http://aperiodic.net/screen/
- http://aperiodic.net/screen/quick_reference
Within books:
- https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/linux-server-hacks/0596100825/ch04.html#morelnxsvrhks-CHP-4-SECT-7 — Hack #34. Disconnect Your Console Without Ending Your Session
- https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/bash-cookbook-2nd/9781491975329/ch17.html#recovering_disconnected_sessions_using_screen — 17.4 Recovering Disconnected Sessions Using screen